Re: [libreoffice-design] Help Sought: LibreOffice UI Alternation Experiement - Acadamic Project

Hi Yu, Xi, George, Kevin,

sorry for not having replied earlier. I marked your mail, but as there
are 70 other mails I wanted to reply here on the list, I lost track...

Yu Liu schrieb:
> Hi LibreOffice Design Team,
>
> We are a group of four Software Engineering undergraduate students
> studying at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. As part of
> the curriculum, we are required to spend over a year on a design
> project, which involves creating a new software system, or improving
> an existing one. We have decided to put our skills in creating what
> we think would be an improved user interface for the LibreOffice.

I think this is a great opportunity - for both your project and our
community.

> Because this is an academic project, we will have to branch from the
> current code repository.

This would allow us to review your changes / new UI and implement them
(or at least some of them) to the main repository, if you can license
them under LGPL 3+ and MPL.

> If you have any doubt or question regarding
> our project, please feel free to ask us or our professor Paul A.S.
> Ward at pasward@ccng.uwaterloo.ca (his university personal page is
> http://www.ccng.uwaterloo.ca/~pasward/). For academic purpose, we are
> seeking if it is possible for us to establish a regular contact with
> one of you. It's required of us to receive regular feedback and
> guidance on our progress from a considered expert in the field, and a
> formal developer would certainly qualify.

Do you want to contact a developer or a user experience / graphic design
expert?

For the former you would have to contact the developer mailing list at
http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice

While they can give you programming guidance, UX and UI design are
worked on here.

I for one don't consider myself as "expert" in this field - especially
as contact for a university project - but perhaps one of the other team
members would be able and willing to serve as contact.

> We will bother that person
> no more than once or twice a month with our progress. We may have to
> refer to the person as our "client" or "customer", although
> absolutely no obligation is attached. We would like to thank you in
> advance for your consideration, and we look forward to hear back from
> you.

Once again sorry for the late reply!

Best regards

Bernhard

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